Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Motown music on the sound track), live together as rebellious college students (psychedelic rock), marry to satisfy their parents and eventually divorce. The bouffant hairdos and nerdy wisecracks lend fun to the flashbacks, but Daly and Gordon face such predictable life crises that one might be reading a textbook on the generic baby boomer. Almost Grown will not reach maturity until it addresses more individual, and compelling, problems...
From there, we walk back down the hill into Boston's commercial and historical district. Stopping first at the Granary Burying Ground (billed as the "last resting place of the Patriots"), we wander among Winthrops and Leveretts and other textbook names from the past. Some of the headstones are so thin and old that they have cracked, leaving only fragments of names and dates...
...like to study the Soviet Union "from the other side." Says he: "I find out things that I didn't learn in my own country about the highest powers like Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev." Not all the teaching goes unchallenged. At Wheaton, Sabyrova takes issue with an American textbook that describes the Soviet economy as entirely planned. "It is wrong," she insists. "With economic reform there are a lot of changes in our country." Meanwhile at Oberlin, Killu Tyugu, who did not initially believe it was possible to study in America, is amused to find that her fellow molecular...
...training, Goodwin read books on psychiatry and recounted the episodes of his diary to friends who were psychiatrists. Goodwin claims that another Johnson aide, Bill Moyers, had the same misgivings and also consulted practicing psychiatrists. "In all cases," writes Goodwin, "the diagnosis was the same: we were describing a textbook case of paranoid disintegration, the eruption of long-suppressed irrationalities." Moyers has refused comment on Goodwin's account...
...raise $40 million for the Iacocca Institute, an industrial-policy center. Says he: "I'm going to try to be a cross between a savvy, street-smart guy and an elder statesman." In that sense, Talking Straight could turn out to be a future professor's best-selling textbook...